Police beat 21-year-old Akim Andreev, a resident of the town of Odintsovo near Moscow, and also threatened him with rape if he did not admit to selling drugs. about this with reference to lawyer Konstantin Erokhin. writes Mediazona
According to Andreev, on August 1, employees of the drug control unit of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Odintsovo District, Ruslan Temirov and Artur Rozhkov, beat him in the entrance of his own house, and then took him to the department, where they continued to beat and strangle him.
“Despite the fact that I was immobilized and could not resist, Arthur punched me in the head and kidneys; in total, he struck me more than 30 times in the head area. Ruslan began to choke me again - he only let me go when I began to lose consciousness again,” Andreev wrote in a statement, which he sent to the Investigative Committee, the district and regional prosecutor’s office, as well as to the internal security department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Moscow Region.
In addition, on the way to the department, the security forces threatened Andreev with rape: “Ruslan told me that during interrogation I should say what they say, in particular, that I sold the drug to my old friend. If I start saying something on my own, then “he will put a rubber truncheon in my ass and rape me with it.”
Andreev, as Mediazona writes, was forced to sign a confession in the case of storage, sale and attempt to sell hashish on a large scale. The Odintsovo city court arrested him and sent him to pre-trial detention center No. 10 in Mozhaisk.
According to Erokhin, the next day after Andreev’s arrest, “a huge hematoma appeared on his forehead,” and he was taken to the emergency room. Andreev himself believes that the police took him to the emergency room because they were scared.
“The certificate issued by the Odintsovo regional hospital on August 2 indicates extensive hemorrhages in the neck and “multiple atypical insect bites on the buttock,” the publication writes.
Akim’s father, Alexander Andreev, holds the position of deputy director of the Novoivanovskoye management company. He told Mediazona that he considers the case against his son fabricated. According to Alexander Andreev, he has been suing Odintsovo businessmen, the local administration, and the district police for many years.
the owners of the Tile World shopping center in the village of Novoivanovskoye, Moscow Region, Thus, he is suing over the boundaries of his land plot. a lawsuit against the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Odintsovo District He filed due to the procedure for registering migrants, which, in his opinion, is being delayed.
“At the last meeting [in the case of land relations], the opposing party openly announced that measures of pressure would be taken against me by law enforcement agencies. At that time, I also warned the children that there could be provocations,” explained Alexander Andreev.
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